F1 celebrates its 75th anniversary: this was born
On May 13, 1950, the first career in the history of the category in Silverstone was played. From the seasons of large awards to the World Cup.
France can boast of having had the first recognized car race in history. It was in 1894 and joined the cities of Paris with Rouen. The fastest to cover the 126 kilometers was the count of Dion, however, he could not take the prize because his car needed a stoker during the journey. Thus, it was Albert Lemaitre, with a Peugeot, who remained in history as the winner. That distant competition was the flame that ignited motor racing. And in Europe, the activity began to grow until the seasons of the big prizes were formed, the prehistory of Formula 1.
These great awards did not belong to any official calendar, it was a group of enthusiasts, and wealthy, who disputed the GP of Germany, Monaco, France, etc. The duels were among the English cars (painted green), French (blue), Italian (red) and Germans (whites). In the 30s of the last century, two German brands dominated: Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, which is Audi. In those years, the silver arrow mot for Mercedes was born, because their engineers decided not to paint the cars to relieve weight and gain speed. The British press then baptized them as the silver arrows.
Averaging the decade of the twentieth century, talks began to create a championship that was formed by a calendar composed of the great awards. The conversations advanced, but everything stopped on September 1, 1939 when Nazi’s Germany of Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and began World War II. After the triumph of the allies, the races resumed and, of course, the conversations.
Finally, The agreement was closed and on May 13, 1950 the GP of Great Britain was disputedfirst date of the brand new championship called Formula 1. The chosen place was Silverstone, an old airfield that used the Royal British Air Force to bombard Berlin during the Second War and that had been disaffected. The German cars were missing the competition, because the factories were in full reconstruction of their devastated country.
26 pilots were registered to dispute English competition and The winner was Giuseppe Farina, with Alfa Romeo. Juan Manuel Fangio participated in that race, who after running in Argentina and being a two -time tourism road, He went to Europe. The chueco led the competition, but an oil leak forced him to stop his alpha Romeo. The second competition of the First World Cup exercise was the Mónaco GP, played eight days later, which had the Argentine as winner. That appointment also marked Ferrari’s debut, the only team with perfect presence in the history of F1.
The third appointment was the 500 miles of Indianapolis. The mythical race, which integrates the triple crown with the 24 hours of Le Mans and the Mónaco GP, was part of the F1 agenda from 1950 to 1960 inclusive, with the peculiarity that Europeans did not travel to dispute it. Nino Farina would be the champion of that first season.
The F1 reached 75 years. Of those seven major awards that the initial season had, he went to the current 24. Huge names, powerful teams, tragedies, unforgettable races, remembered champions and others that did not go from mediaía, different owners, political struggles … Everything happened in 75.
